In our busy society people move around like busy little bees, each of them going to a precise destination:  work, home, restaurant, meetings, shopping and so on. We all try to do as many things as possible in only one day or do more than one thing at a time in order to save time. Because, after all, "time is money" and we can't afford losing either of them. For these exact reasons people in the computer industry invented the portable computer, the one you can take everywhere with you and use it while you are travelling or when you are in an airport, hotel, train, restaurant or any other place where you spend time and wait for a while. If you go in a big city and look around, you will see a lot of people carrying notebooks. They are smaller and smaller and more and more profficient. So it is only natural to have matching computer mice. You can't use your brand new shiny notebook with an old big ugly computer mouse. The computer mouse mouse be easy, small, nice and very good quality. Usually people who use notebook computers prefer a wireless computer mouse because they use it in all kinds of places and don't want to be incommodated by the cord of the mouse. They also prefer small size mouses because they must be transported easily. If the computer mouse is also laser and ergonomic, than everything will be fine.

Of course, all companies that produce computer mouses released special models for notebook computers, so you can find many of them on the market. If you want to purchase one for your notebook computer, you should visit a few specialized web sites that show you a long list with such computer peripherals and also compare prices for you. Here is one such example: www. nextag.com .

I was interested in purchasing one of these little nice rodents for my notebook, so I surfed the internet looking for the best offer my money can buy. Well, apparently Microsoft is the company that has the most and best models of notebook computer mouses. They released models in the series Microsoft Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse (2000, 3000, ... 8000). They are all very comfortable ergonomic mouses that are designed especially for notebook computer use.

Let's take the model Microsoft Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse for example. It is a wireless ergonomic mouse designed to offer a much comfortable computer use with a faster response to commands any time, any where. It works due to a 2.4 GHz technology that allows you to operate your notebook from a distance within 9 metres from your computer. The high definition laser technology makes your mouse a lot more precise , with a faster response to commands and also a better positioning. This wireless notebook computer mouse also has an original and useful feature that distinguishes this model from other available notebook computer mousese: it has a magnifier incorporated. Just point and click if you want to magnify the picture and edit the details. It also allows and recognizes a four way movement. So you can move your mouse in any direction, the movement will be recognized by your notebook and translated on the screen in the movement of the cursor. The window flip feature allows you to easily flip the open windows with just one click. Sometimes the wireless computer mouses finish their batteries unexpectedly and you can't finish your work or just happened to be in the middle of something, so this can be really annoying. Not with this mouse: it has a LED just below the scroll wheel that lights green when the battery is full and red when the battery is almost full, drawing your attention to replace it.



Speaking of which - the battery life of this mouse is really long: almost six months of use, which is quite a lot in my opinion. the speed of the scroll wheel saves you a lot of time when you surf internet pages or look for something in a very long Word document. If you have too many open windows on the desktop you can use the scroll wheel to instantly display all of them and then select the one you want to see. Of course that this mouse, too, being a wireless mouse, needs a receiver that can be fixed and removed from the USB port of your notebook. The fact that it is removable can save the energy of your mouse battery, as you can remove it from your notebook when you are not using the mouse. It is fashionable now to be "eco" and save ernergy, even the small quantity provided by a battery mouse, so now you can do better and save even more battery energy from your wireless notebook computer mouse, as it has an on/off button , allowing you to turn it off when you are not using it.

They say that the great things are due to the attention paid to details. This mouse is the proof for this saying, as the manufacturer apparently thought of every tiny detail and wanted everything to be perfect for this wireless notebook computer mouse. So the design of this mouse is ergonomic and comfortable, but it can be used by both right-handed and left-handed people, which is a blessing for the lefties. You can get easy access to media files or to your favourites if you programme the buttons of the mouse to do so. I mean they can be programmed to do about everything you want them to. This mouse, as all the mouses in this series produced by Microsoft are specially designed for notebook computers (even the name suggests it).



So, once again, Microsoft proved worthy of the fame it has got and offers really good quality products, not only in the software industry as we were used, but in the hardware industry, too. The permanent preoccupation for the user's comfort and safety, together with the latest technology and attention to details, make Microsoft the best and most important computer company in the world.